Economic Boom or Bust coming in 2015? Take a look at the thumbnail photo I pulled of the twitter bird poop pile. It a rather amuzing commentary of our news media. Does the story we here in the public media […]

US Bogus Jobs Data? The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Its mission is to collect, […]

Great US Jobs Numbers and Record Foods Stamps. In the last week’s US jobs report there were 321,000 jobs added the economy in November, keeping the unemployment rate at 5.8%. Very impressive, but it is important to keep this in […]

Economic data salad – August 2014. This past week has seen a slurry of economic data points as well as geopolitical events, that have been effecting the markets. It has been sort of an economic tossed salad of events, some […]

Dumbing down the college grad. Students entering the job market in 2010 and 2011 took a 19 percent pay cut from what they could have expected without a recession, according to economists at Yale University in New Haven. Many of […]